[bksvol-discuss] Re: question re international membership
- From: "Jesse Fahnestock" <Jesse.F@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 06:51:10 -0700
Donna:
The ideal would be to get the copyright offices of various nations with
Chafee-like laws to cooperate and allow sharing across borders. But that's not
something that Bookshare.org has a lot of power to change -- we're a small
technology developing nonprofit, as opposed to a large advocacy organization,
which would really need to tackle that. That said, we put in a good word
whenever international bodies begin discussing copyright exemptions! The other
thing we've tried to do is to start replications of the service from scratch in
other countries. In those cases the challenge is mainly financial --
organizations in other countries need the startup money to make Bookshare.xx
happen.
jesse.
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Donna Goodin
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 2:49 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] question re international membership
Hi all,
I have a question, probably for one of the powers that be at Bookshare. I am
wondering about the situation of international visitors/members. Is that
situation likely to change, i.e. is bookshare working on anything, if in fact
there is anything they can do, that would allow people from other countries to
access copyrighted books? I know that what Bookshare can do is restricted by
the limitations of copyright law, but if there is anything that can be done, it
would sure be nice if people in other countries, some of whom have very limited
access to braille and recorded materials, could get access to this collection.
Best,
Donna
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